The Arizona champion., 1887-10-08
A NEWER EDUCATION

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 not only of our higher graduates who have received their education from col leges and universities, but of those who leave our city high schools, and the country academies and semi seminaries. Education is, in not few cases, actually detrimental to earning bread-"To dig cannot; to beg l am ashamed" These men make no i'm pression on society with what they hold in possession, and go threadbare, with a sense of awful helplessness, but only able to teach others to be equally help less-precisely as parrot possesses fund of information, but must still shriek to all corners that Polly wants a cracker. Poor overloaded gentlemen oflottors! They cannot unload; and the load, only in the act of unloading, is useless.
 Have we madea blunderl Is eluca- tion overdonel No, but it is not edu- cation which we have, but learning. Education IS making the most of a man; learning is the loading of the mind. Bullet us see. We have made blunder in suppoSins that brain cul- tare is thorough culture. We have made too much of the brain, It has become not only directive. but domi nant, We suppose that by sending a boy to school VIC are doing what is nec- essary. His body is as yet uniformed. We give it no training. His nerves are, by horedity, too high strung; they do not serve their purpose; they are not true telegraphs. What do we do about itl Make matters as much worse as possible. What noxtl Our boy by fifteen feels the need of tobacco, He is an habitual smoker, and uses the drug as a sedative. Our college boys know nothing of physiological laws of study-nor that there are such laws; they only know that when unable to work they must smoke. This is the kind of bodies education is giving. The hand is useless member in ed ucation. It knows nothing. It is stupid. There is nothing an educated man finds so much difficulty in dis posing of as his hands. He puts them in his pockets. The Yankee could whittle. He educated his hands. He could, on pinch, make wooden nut meg, shoe pes, c wooden clock, an OK yoke, rocking chair, table, and a broom. He could, as he expressed it, turn his hand to anything" our education can not turn a hand It only turns the brains, and turns the head, and is filling our insane asylums Cranks are mostly educated brains over-educated, parboiloi. One-half of our tramps have elucatal brains. Our neighbors' girls arc all educated; con sequently they can not milk COW, or harness a horse, or waSh their own clothes, or make Q loaf of bread, or roast a les of mutton. The body is carrying around batch of cultured brains; as if to say, am a good fer nothing, only 1 carry Caesar. But Cesar needs bread.
 We must readjust our notions of education, so that it shall apply to the hand as wol! as the head. Let us see what the ro3uit will be. There will no lon3er bs class specially assiSne! to vulgar toil, to iow-srate work, while otAors soar up after light onl sweetness, but those who are best el- uclsoi will ba eluaily able to thiak and 70 work. Shocking you say. Shall our poets stop riyyniny to dig a ditcLl Shall cur banker leave his vaults to plant apple treasl Shall our sweetest swoetnoa2 tho parson, hoo eornl S!ial our blaoSsmith write for Inagazinesl Shall our editor be able to set type and sometimes do it! Shall our plumber play the yic!ini Our kitchen girl the pianoi Our porter possess microscope, and bs wise to sketch from naturel Ali things, can and must move in that direction, and slowly that way we do move. Manual training and brain training combined are our destiny. It will abolish caste, for it is caste here in America quite us surely as in India, We do not, of course, mean that there is any tendency to higglcdy-piggleiy in the way of special |